When all is said and done, Greenspan is one of the people in Washington biting his fingernails the least right now. He can work with either of those guys.

This project has what in Washington, D.C., we call traction. There are people in Washington who wouldn't mind seeing this project succeed.

It's not a monetary scholarship. When we take the trip to Washington, D.C., we get to meet with several politicians, authors and scientists. Other than that, it's really just an award and something that looks really good.

They know that coming to Franklin is a good thing, because they have people down here who would rather stay in Franklin and see them than come to Nashville.

The Washington state economy right now is a job engine drawing people in from the sidelines and into the job market.

He has lived a very unusual life. People who aren't in the know might think he's born to be an economist, that he was studying economics at the age of 5. But he's taken a lot of interesting eddies a long the way.